Improvement in guides for sewing-machines



0- G. BRADY.

Cording Guide for Sewing Machines.

Patented Dec. 27, 1859.

N4 PETERS. Phamulhugrapmn Wnhindlon. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT 0FFlCE.1

OLIVER G. BRADY, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 20,561, dated December 27 IP59.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER G. BRADY, of

the city, county, and State of New York,-have.

ings, forming part of this specification, in

which Figure 1 is plan view of myiniproved cording-guide, showing the manner in which it is applied to the bedplate of a sewing-machine. Fig. 2 is a similar view, representing the manner in which the fabric is applied 'to be corded.

Figs- 3 and 4 are'views, taken from opposite sides of the cording-guide, on a larger scale than Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a bottom view of the presser on the samescale as Figs. ,3

' and 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists in a certain construc tion and arrangement relatively to each other of a guiding-tube and a grooved presser, where; by I am enabled to insert the cord within a fold orbetween two thicknesses of fabric,-in straight, curved, or zigzag lines, in such manner as to bring all the fullness produced by the cord on one side of the fold or plait, leaving the opposite side perfectly even or flat.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operatlon.

A is the presser, represented asbeing. made in the form of a slotted shoe to fit the footpiece or presser-pad of an ordinary sewingmachine, and furnished in the upper part with a set-screw, a, to secure it to such foot-piece or pad. This 'presser may, however, consti tute a footpiece, and take the place of the foot- -piece ordinarily used. Thelower part or sole of the said presser, which is the only part whose form or construction is really of importance, is grooved, as shown at C in Fig. 5, in the direction in which the fabric to be corded is moved by the feed of the sewingmachine, such groove being of.a width and depth to receive the cord and the fabric which has a recess, 6, so formed on theopposite side,

for the perforating-needle of the sewing-ma chine to work in, that only a short toe-like piece, f, is left to contain the groove 0, such piece occupying'aposition close to the needle.

g is the guiding-tube, attached to a thin flat bar, 13,, which is secured to the bed-plateO of the sewing-machine by means of a screw, i.

This bar B is made slightly elastic, thatit may have a tendency to spring upward from the bed-plate and raise the tube g therefrom, andit occupies a position at .right angles tothe feed. I) is the spool which supplies the cord,

arranged to deliver thecord in a line just above the bed-plate c. The cordpasses from this spool along the edge of thebarZB, through one or more guiding-eyes, J0, attached to the said bar, and through the tube 1 The tube g is made of very thin metal, andis curved horizontally'in such a manner asto lie nearly close to the rounded portion 'dof the presser, and to deliver the cord close to the grooved toef thereof, and from a little beyond where its curve commences it is open on the'outer side of the curve, as shown at i in Fig. 1.

The operation of the guide isas follows:

The cord having been led from the spool through the eye or eyesh, and through the tube g, as shown in Fig. 1, the folded fabric, or the two pieces of fabric between which the while the lower thickness, j, lies perfectlyflat the upper thickness is' drawn over the tube 9 into the groove 0 of the foot-piece, and so caused to be gathered up into an arched form corresponding with the exterior of the said tube, and thus prepared to receive the 'cord as it issues from the mouth of the said tube, In this way all the fullness produced by the a cord is brought into the upper thicknessof the fabric. Owing to the shortness of the groove 0, which, it will be remembered, only extends across the toe f of the presser, andto themouth of the tube g being. brought so close to the on the bed-plate in short curves or in zigzag,

direction, andthe cording can be performed in such curved, zigzag, or irregular lines as cannot be produced with any other cordingguide.

I do not claim the invention of it grooved presser, or of a guide lying-fiat upon the bedplate to conduct the cord to the grooved resser, but v YVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is. Y

. he combination of the resser, having its sole formed with a. curved, a grooved toe, f, and

a recess, e, as described, and the curved guidetube -arranged relatively tothe curved edge and toe of: the resser as herein described, and operating as and for the purpose specified. I

\ OLIVER G. BRADY. Witnesses:

- THos. PETINGALE,

M cH. HUGHES. 

